"Why did the Greeks of the archaic and early Classical period join in choruses that sang and danced on public and private occasions? This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of representations of chorality in the poetry, art and material remains of early Greece in order to de…
"Why did the Greeks of the archaic and early Classical period join in choruses that sang and danced on public and private occasions? This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of representations of chorality in the poetry, art and material remains of early Greece in order to de…
Grappling with definitions -- Repairing fractured perspectives -- The Greek trophy: written sources -- Visual evidence & the history of the Greek trophy -- The Roman adoption & adaptation of the Greek trophy -- The trophy tableau -- The landscape trophy
Greek myth-makers crafted the downfall of Troy and its rulers into an archetypal illustration of ruthless conquest, deceit, crime and punishment, and the variability of human fortunes. This book examines the major episodes in this archetypal myth - the murder of Priam, the rape …
Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natural world within archaeology. …
Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natural world within archaeology. …
"This volume addresses a subject central to both world archaeology and trans-cultural art history. Landscape has been a key theme in the last half-century at least in both disciplines, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human interventio…
This study explores a phenomenon known as aniconism - the absence of figural images of gods in Greek practised religion and the adoption of aniconic monuments, namely objects such as pillars and poles, to designate the presence of the divine. Shifting our attention from the well…
Il Partenone, il più celebrato dei templi greci, costruito sull'Acropoli nel V secolo a.C. in onore di Atena, custodiva una statua colossale della dea in oro e avorio, simbolo dell'egemonia della città sull'Egeo. Ma quanto costò alle casse pubbliche un'opera del genere? Un'ipote…
